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English Grammar Tense Revision Exercises

The document contains a verb tense review exercise with multiple sections: 1) Put verbs in simple present or present continuous tense. 2) Put verbs in simple past or past perfect tense. 3) Put verbs in simple past or present perfect tense. 4) Put verbs in simple past or past continuous tense. The review focuses on correctly using verb tenses like simple present, present continuous, simple past, past perfect, present perfect, and past continuous through a series of example sentences in each section.

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English Grammar Tense Revision Exercises

The document contains a verb tense review exercise with multiple sections: 1) Put verbs in simple present or present continuous tense. 2) Put verbs in simple past or past perfect tense. 3) Put verbs in simple past or present perfect tense. 4) Put verbs in simple past or past continuous tense. The review focuses on correctly using verb tenses like simple present, present continuous, simple past, past perfect, present perfect, and past continuous through a series of example sentences in each section.

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Verb Tense review: Exercises

1) Put the verbs into the correct tense (simple present or present continuous)
A. Look! Sara (go)____________ to the movies.
B. On her right hand, Sara (carry) ____________ her handbag.
C. The handbag (be) ____________ very beautiful.
D. Sara usually (put) ____________ on black shoes but now she (wear) ____________ white
trainers.
E. And look, she (take) ____________ an umbrella because it (rain) ____________

2) Put the verbs into the correct tense (simple past or past perfect)
A. When he (wake up) ____________ , his mother (already /prepare) ____________ breakfast
B. We (go) ____________ to London because our friends (invite) ____________ us
C. He (hear) ____________ the news, (go) ____________ to the telephone and (call)
____________ a friend.
D. When she (start) ____________ learning English she (already /learn) ____________ French.
E. Jane (already / type) ____________ three pages when her computer (crash) ____________ .
F. By the time the doctor (arrive) ____________ at the house the patient ( die) ____________
.
G. Before that day we (never / think) ____________ of traveling to Japan.
H. I (know) ____________ him a long time before I (meet) ____________ his family.
I. They (not / know) ____________ where to meet because nobody (tell) ____________ them.
J. It (be) ____________ cloudy for days before it (begin) ____________ to rain.

3) Put the verbs into the correct tense (simple past or present perfect).
A. I (just / finish) ____________ my homework.
B. Mary (already / write) ____________ five letters.
C. Tom (move) ____________ to his home town in 1994.
D. My friend (be) ____________ in Canada two years ago.
E. I (not / be) ____________ to Canada so far.
F. But I (already / travel) ____________ to London a couple of times.
G. Last week, Mary and Paul (go) ____________ to the cinema.
H. I can't take any pictures because I (not /buy) ____________ a new film yet.
I. (they / spend) ____________ their holidays in Paris last summer?
J. (you / ever / see ) ____________ a whale?

4) Put the verbs into the correct tense (Simple Past or Past Continuous).
A. The receptionist (welcome) ____________ the guests and (ask) ____________ them to fill in
the form
B. The car (break) ____________ down and we (have) ____________ to walk home.
C. The boys (swim) ____________ while the girls (sunbath) ____________ .
D. My father (come) ____________ in, (look) ____________ and (tell) ____________ me to
tidy up my room.
E. While one group (prepare) ____________ dinner the others (collect) ____________ wood
for the campfire.
F. While the parents (have) ____________ breakfast the children (run) ____________ about.
G. Martha (turn) ____________ off the light and (go) ____________ to bed.

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